PortalEIR: A social network approach
for residents education.
Jose Luis de la Rosa. IAVANTE Foundation.
Regional Ministry of Health. Andalusia

Introduction: What PortalEIR is
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Project managed by the Andalusian
Regional Ministry of Health
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Developed by IAVANTE Foundation
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Focused on residents education
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Financed by the European Social
Fund

Introduction: Who is for?
Residents
Tutors
Teachers
Education
managers

Introduction: Bird-view numbers
•Above 1000 residents start each year
•More than 1200 tutors
•Around 70 education managers
•More than 200 teachers
•Increasing number of collaborators

Introduction: The educational approach
Learning
PortalEIR Teaching
Evaluation
tutor/resident
Collaboration Information

Problems:
• Education management system
geographically dispersed
• Heterogeneous system
• Old-fashioned processes
• Resistance to change
• Environment changes very fast

The solution was not 1.0

Solution: Features for Residents
•Join with their tutors (through invitation).
•See their evolution in several topics
•Consult their roadmap in graphical and
textual mode.
•Publish clinical sessions, critical incidents
reports.
•Evaluate teaching
•Self-evaluate learning
•E-learning.
•Etc.

Solution: Features for Tutors
•Review the evolution of their residents
•Communicate with their residents.
•Share workspaces with other tutors.
•Self-evaluate teaching process
•Etc.

Solution: Features for Education Units
•Publish documents of interest
•Send information by e-mail and SMS.
•Manage courses
•Manage rotations
•Reports about evaluation, teaching,
learning, etc.
•Automated processes

Results: Numbers speaking
•8500 registered users
•60% of active users (before < 6%)
•More than 12000 logins per month
(before < 2000)
•Number of registered tutors increased 10
times

Conclusions
•Web 2.0 approach definitely improves
education management.
•Web 2.0 approach increases residents
and tutors activity.
•Web 2.0 approach makes easier to deal
with heterogeneous system

Thank you very much
joseluis.rosa@iavante.es